And that’s the most important thing, even if Angie can’t see how Jess truly feels. Jess Wong is Angie Redmond’s best friend. The line between best friend and something more is a line always crossed in the dark. The exciting adventure prequel to Malinda Lo's highly acclaimed novel Ash is overflowing with lush Chinese influences and details inspired by the I Ching, and is filled with action and romance. But the Kingdom needs only one huntress to save it, and what it takes could tear Kaede and Taisin apart forever. As members of their party succumb to unearthly attacks and fairy tricks, the two come to rely on each other and even begin to fall in love. And yet the two girls' destinies are drawn together during the mission. Taisin is a sage, thrumming with magic, and Kaede is of the earth, without a speck of the otherworldly. To solve the crisis, the oracle stones are cast, and Kaede and Taisin, two seventeen-year-old girls, are picked to go on a dangerous and unheard-of journey to Tanlili, the city of the Fairy Queen. The people's survival hangs in the balance. Worse yet, strange and hostile creatures have begun to appear. The sun hasn't shone in years, and crops are failing. Nature is out of balance in the human world. Malinda Lo's digital exclusive novella companion to Adaptation and Inheritance takes readers on a journey through Amber's past, giving fans a glimpse into her life on Kurra and a deeper understanding of one of Adaptation's most compelling characters. But when Amber undergoes kibila, a traditional Imrian coming-of-age ceremony during which Amber will choose her name and identity for the next fifteen years, she will be forced to either accept her role in both worlds or forge her own path. And even when she returns to Kurra, her human experiences, including first love and heartache, still separate her from her fellow Imrians. Imrian by blood, Amber was forced to hide her true self to pass as human during the time she spent on earth. Gone native.īefore she met her girlfriend Reese, before she knew the role she would play in the fate of two worlds, Amber was a fifteen-year-old Imrian torn between two identities. They call me an Earthsider: as if I've crossed a line, chosen a side. My people, the Imria, think I'm a little unusual because of that. When Reese unexpectedly collides with the beautiful Amber Gray, her search for the truth is forced in an entirely new direction-and threatens to expose a vast global conspiracy that the government has worked for decades to keep secret. San Francisco feels like a different place with police enforcing curfew, hazmat teams collecting dead birds, and a strange presence that seems to be following her. Things become even stranger when Reese returns home. When they wake up in a military hospital, the doctor won’t tell them what happened, where they are-or how they’ve been miraculously healed. On their drive home to San Francisco, along a stretch of empty highway at night in the middle of Nevada, a bird flies into their headlights. Everyone knows the world will never be the same. Reese and her debate team partner and longtime crush David are in Arizona when it happens. Fearing terrorism, the United States government grounds all flights, and millions of travelers are stranded. She only knows one thing: She’s different now.Īcross North America, flocks of birds hurl themselves into airplanes, causing at least a dozen to crash.
From the deepest grief comes the chance for transformation.Reese can’t remember anything from the time between the accident and the day she woke up almost a month later. But most important of all, she also meets Kaisa, a huntress employed by the king, and it is Kaisa who truly awakens Ash's desires for both love and self-respect.Ash escapes a life with her grim and self-serving stepmother and finds her beloved one.ASH is a fairy tale about possibility and recognizing the opportunities for change. Against the sheer misery of her stepmother's cruelty, greed and ambition in preparing her two charmless daughters for presentation at court, and hopefully Royal or aristocratic marriage, Ash befriends one of these fairies-a mysterious, handsome man-who grants her wishes and restores hope to Ash's existence, even though she knows there will be a price to pay.
As orphaned Ash grows up, a servant in her stepmother's home, she begans to realise that her beloved mother, Elinor was very much in tune with these underworld folk, and that she herself has the power to see them too. In the world of ASH, fairies are an older race of people who walk the line between life and death, reality and magic.
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